This just happened less than an hour ago near the South County Airport in San Martin, approx. 20-25 miles south of my house,
Steve
Plane Crashes Into South Bay Truck Weigh Station
POSTED: 6:29 pm PDT August 20, 2008
UPDATED: 6:51 pm PDT August 20, 2008
A small plane crashed into a truck weigh station of Highway 101 in San Martin on Wednesday evening.
The plane crashed shortly after 6 p.m., according to eyewitness Danielle Grusonik, who was driving off southbound Highway 101 in San Martin.
"(There were) lots of flames," she said. "It is really chaotic."
Ian Gregor, of the FAA, said one person was killed in the crash that happened at the Gilroy truck stop on the Gilroy-San Martin border about five miles north of Highway 152.
Grusonik said there was no emergency personnel at the scene when she drove by the crash but she could see that the plane was in flames and it had struck the building.
"I didn't see the actual impact," she said. "I noticed it because it was kind of circling in a bizarre fashion"
The plane was a single engine Socata Rallye.
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Steve
Plane Crashes Into South Bay Truck Weigh Station
POSTED: 6:29 pm PDT August 20, 2008
UPDATED: 6:51 pm PDT August 20, 2008
A small plane crashed into a truck weigh station of Highway 101 in San Martin on Wednesday evening.
The plane crashed shortly after 6 p.m., according to eyewitness Danielle Grusonik, who was driving off southbound Highway 101 in San Martin.
"(There were) lots of flames," she said. "It is really chaotic."
Ian Gregor, of the FAA, said one person was killed in the crash that happened at the Gilroy truck stop on the Gilroy-San Martin border about five miles north of Highway 152.
Grusonik said there was no emergency personnel at the scene when she drove by the crash but she could see that the plane was in flames and it had struck the building.
"I didn't see the actual impact," she said. "I noticed it because it was kind of circling in a bizarre fashion"
The plane was a single engine Socata Rallye.
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